Gone with the Wind
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Gossip Friday: Silent Scarlett
Since TCM has selected Vivien Leigh as their Star of the Month this month (set your DVRs!), here’s some gossip on her from September 1940: …of all Hollywood’s femmes fatales, we call your attention first to Vivien Leigh. If you lived in Hollywood this wouldn’t be necessary. You’d be aware of her–with reason! It looks as if there’d be no liomit to Vivien’s conquests when–a little less enthralled by her Romeo, Laurence Olivier–she becomes aware that other men walk the earth, too. For those men who’ve managed to impress themselves on the Leigh consciousness, usually through working with her, are quick to admit her natural attraction. “There’s always something more…
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Gossip Friday: Reviews on Gone with the Wind
Today starts the festivities in Marietta, GA celebrating the 70th anniversary of “Gone with the Wind”. I will be there all day and all day on Saturday as well and you know I will report back next week with details and pictures! Keeping with “Gone with the Wind” as a theme, here are two letters from June 1940 to the editor of a fan magazine: I have just seen “Gone with the Wind” and like thousands of others I thought it was grand entertainment. But unlike thousands of others, I think the picture, like the book, should have never been created. Why? Because the picture revives the Civil War, a…
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Visiting Miss Mitchell
Clark, Margaret Mitchell and Vivien Leigh in Atlanta for the premiere of Gone with the Wind, 1939 This past weekend I ventured into downtown Atlanta to Oakland Cemetary, where, among many others, Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell is buried. A beautiful, peaceful cemetary dating from the 1850’s (the earliest “death date” my companion and I saw was 1861), it contains many Georgia luminaries as well as the graves of 6,900 Confederate soliders. It is estimated to hold the remains of 70,000 people, which includes some 20,000 that are laying in unmarked graves in a large field on one side of the cemetary. We wandered around for a few hours, pointing…